"Belles bêtes" exposition photos 2023-2025 à l'Aven d'Orgnac Grand site de France

The work of both reveals great sensitivity and closeness to their subjects, the fruit of observation time, patience and approach...

The objective of a wildlife photographer is to show the animal in all its vitality, sometimes its personality. Look. No longer make the animal a simple object of description or contemplation.
This approach echoes Paleolithic animal representations. Some surprise with their realism, representing the animal in all its vitality and specificity. What approach did prehistoric artists have to the animal world to arrive at such knowledge, which comes under ethology?

The confrontation of these past and present gazes projects us into the universe of men and women who establish an intimate relationship with other species. This photographic adventure invites us to an odyssey. An escape from oneself and an investigation without narcissism on our legitimate place among the animals.

* Guillaume Mazille, life photographer
Guillaume Mazille has been traveling the globe for over 20 years to observe nature and find species that are still rarely observed. He works for newspapers such as VSD, Paris Match, image doc, GEO ado, and Terre Sauvage, BBC Wildlife magazine, etc.
He regularly collaborates as author of documentaries, scientific adviser,
image operator for television (Arte, BBC, France 5, TF1, NHK, etc.) or cinema (Un jour sur Terre, Océans, etc.). He wrote, shot and co-directed Wolves Unleashed, a film that won 21 awards at major American and Canadian festivals. In 2016, the Arte channel devoted a series of fifteen episodes to his work as a wildlife photographer around the world.

** Photographs: Guillaume Mazille, wildlife photographer / Curator: Guillaume Mazille – Nicolas Lateur, paleontologist, archaeologist in the service
Departmental Archaeology of the Department of Ardèche – Patricia Guillermin, curator, City of Prehistory.

Included in the Pass'Grand site entrance ticket and "Cité de la Préhistoire" entrance